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HB17-1240

Relocate Title 12 Colorado Department Of Public Health And Environment

Concerning the nonsubstantive relocation of the laws related to the department of public health and environment from title 12, Colorado Revised Statutes, as part of the organizational recodification of title 12.

Session:

2017 Regular Session

Subject:

Health Care & Health Insurance

Bill Summary

Committee on Legal Services. Current law directs the office of legislative legal services to study the organizational recodification of title 12 of the Colorado Revised Statutes, which relates to professions and occupations. To implement the initial recommendations of the study, the bill relocates the following laws:

Article 29.3 of title 12, pursuant to which the department of public health and environment (department) regulates volunteer health practitioners and services provided by volunteer health practitioners during a declared emergency, to part 6 of article 1.5 of title 25 ( section 1 of the bill ); and

Article 30 of title 12, pursuant to which the department regulates persons that represent that a drug, medicine, compound, or device is of value in the diagnosis, treatment, alleviation, or cure of cancer, and the drugs, medicines, compounds, or devices so represented, to article 48 of title 25 ( section 2 ).

Section 3 repeals the articles where these laws were previously codified.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)